Brief Life History of Edwin Sidney
When Edwin Sidney Donnan was born on 27 December 1878, in Amsterdam, Montgomery, New York, United States, his father, Charles Sidney Donnan, was 26 and his mother, Julia Lynch, was 25. He married Helen Miller Smith on 11 June 1908, in Amsterdam, Montgomery, New York, United States. He lived in Montgomery, New York, United States in 1920 and Fort Johnson, Amsterdam, Montgomery, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died in January 1963, in New York, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Amsterdam, Montgomery, New York, United States.
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- Edwin S Donnan in household of Julia M Donnan, "New York State Census, 1905"
- Edwin Sidney Donnan, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
- Edwin Sidney Donnan, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Name Meaning
Irish (County Down): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Donnáin ‘descendant of Donnán’, a diminutive of donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’. This surname is often confused with Doonan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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